Japan Art Mile

In our class, we are doing a collaborative project with Japan. The theme of this project is to paint half of a mural with what we want to leave as our legacy while Japan does the other half. When Japan sent the mural, they also sent a box full of treats and other goodies. Many of the treats were green tea flavoured which I thought was super cool because Canada doesn't have those types of candy. My favourite treat in particular was the green tea Pocky sticks. They were delicious.

For the start of the project, we had to sketch ideas of what we thought would look good on the mural. For my sketches, I chose to draw outdoor sceneries and Canadian wildlife.

Since I chose not to work on the mural, I decided I would work with Somre on a painting of our own. We started with brainstorming ideas of what we thought we should paint. Since we liked the totem pole in one of her sketches, we thought it should be in our painting. 

We did a quick sketch of a sunset, teepee, bear, totem pole, and bird.

Next, we painted a rough copy of our idea. I painted the background and teepee while Somre sketched the totem pole and bird. We didn't end up painting the bear, because we thought the painting would look too cluttered.

Finally, we did our good copy of the painting. We went with an aboriginal theme for this paining by adding a teepee, totem pole, and eagle, since that is part of our legacy. I am very pleased with how our painting turned out.